It’s a busy week judging the AFA dream run, so I apologise for the lack of updates. Let’s get back to it with Episode 10 of Fact or Freestyle featuring guests, Mark Eaton & Ruben Castillo.
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Old School Sundays – AFA Masters Ohio 1988 / R.I.P Park Carter
This week the sad news, Park Carter had passed away broke all over social media. Park was way ahead of the time during the 80’s with his riding, and what he brought to the table. I hit up Todd Carter for any Park Carter to do a dedication to the man, and he came back with this absolute gem from the archives, that features an amazing run from Park Carter at the 18:31 mark, and also so much other good footage to boot from the likes of Danny Meng, Ruben Castillo, Bill Neumann, and many many more. Go watch that run from Park, amazing!
R.I.P Park Carter.
Review: Landscapes 3
Review: Effraim.
I am sure I write this every time I review a video, I feel it’s important to say it without trying to sound like a broken record. It really is a brave move to make an online video these days, especially if you are charging for it online. It’s quite common in skateboarding, but hasn’t filtered over to flatland really.
Landscapes 3 comes in at 1 hour 12 minutes long, I can’t even imagine how much working time that is for the creator, Stewart Munro putting all the pieces together, selecting riders going back and forth with riders gathering footage, picking the music to fit each rider, the list goes on.
OG Flatland BMX Session – Austin, Texas
OG Flatland BMX Session from JMK Pictures on Vimeo.
A couple of thoughts passed through my head watching this well produced OG Flatland session this morning that I feel like I have to share. Number 1, my apologises to Jim McKay missing this the first time round. Number 2, if you are blessed enough to have an amazing scene like this.
I mean this looks like an average session without calling anyone, take advantage of this, hold jams and get togethers and grow the scene. Good riding from Ed Jodie, Ruben Castillo, Chris Anderson, Kenny Boucher, Bobby Burge, and Julio Cotto not to mention the quality of videography is really good with a nice tune to boot. Don’t sleep on this one.
One Love Jam Bonus
BONUS from OneLoveBmx on Vimeo.
Robert Reilly, Rich Slezak, Dane Beardsley, Ruben Castillo, Pete Brandt, Misael Mizo, Lincoln Harberger, and Frank Ruiz feature on the Bonus edit from the One Love jam a few weeks back. Jamming to the sounds of Bodycount!
One Love Jam 2018
OneLoveJam2018 from OneLoveBmx on Vimeo.
The official edit of the 8th annual One Love Jam 2018 just dropped and it’s a banger. Look out for an interview here on FM real soon with the man behind the jam, Darin Wright. For now peep a whole load of good riding and vibes from the likes of Bill Nitschke, Ahmed Johnson, Bruno Zebu, Ruben Castillo, Chad Johnston, Gabe Weed, Ed Jolie, Dane Beardsley, and Pete Brandt.
Ruben Castillo, Chadwick & EZ Chris – Hit the Block
HIT THE BLOCK from Adam DiClaudio on Vimeo.
Ruben Castillo, Chadwick and EZ Chris hit the block, aka the OG in Austin Texas. Hit play to see what went down!
Lookback: June 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards
Summer time is here in June, often one of the best months of the year for content, quality edits and plenty of contests going down down across the globe. Take a check back on what went down this year….
There aren’t enough scene edits anymore, so today I was stoked to find in my inbox this awesome Texas Scene edit entitled “We are” featuring just about everybody who makes up the Texas Flatland scene from Art Thomason to Ruben Castillo to John Yull, this is a good watch! A good way to get June started!
Viki Gomez’s first session of June, throwing down signature move after signature move in Luxembourg! Look out in particular for the first combo and the last one at 2:14. Pure freestyle from one of the best, don’t miss this!
Lookback: April 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards
The clocks go forward in April, and the riding level and contest season takes on more momentum as we all get psyched for the summer. What happened in April? Here are some of the highlights as I dig back in the crates at some of the key moments…
Dane Beardsley’s amazing section from Samethingdaily3 is now online mixing up flatland, trails, ditches, concrete parks, street, Dane can do it all! Flatland wise, look out for the No handed backwards death truck line at 2:20, xft shove it mccircle line at 3:47 and a whole lot more! A Good Friday treat for you from Dane Beardsley, pure BMX! A great way to start the month of April!
Voodoo Jam 2015 Prejam
Jim McKay just dropped this nice edit from the Voodoo Prejam with some rider interviews as well as amazing riding footage, lookout for the Ucchie backwards manual x-ft rope-a-roni line at 00:14!